The U.S. Army has called for an additional 65,000 recruits over the coming years.   Yet in spite of aggressive recruitment efforts, the Army again missed its quality benchmarks in Fiscal Year 2008.  Today NPP updates its annual report on Army recruitment, with Part I of its analysis of Fiscal Year 2008 Army recruiting, and provides access to data by state, county and ZIP Code.

The table below shows the top 100 counties in the U.S.

The table below shows the top 100 counties in the U.S. ranked according to active-duty Army recruitment rates (recruits per 1000 youth).

The overall recruitment rate for the US, calculated here as the number of recruits per thousand youth ages 15-24, was 1.60 in FY 2008.  The following chart and table below it

The following table shows the percentage of non-prior service active-duty Army recruits who are defined as 'high quality.' The Department of Defense (DoD) defines 'high quality' as those recruits w

The Army missed its benchmark for the number of recruits with a high school diploma in FY 2008.

The table below shows the percentage of each state's active-duty Army recruits in fiscal years 2005, 2006 and 2007 that held a regular high school diploma or above, otherwise known as 'tier 1' by the

In spite of efforts by the Pentagon to aggressively recruit youth into the Army, the Army missed its benchmarks once again in 2007. NPP releases its analysis of 2007 recruiting and provides access to data by state, county and ZIP Code.

The table below shows the top 100 counties in the U.S. ranked according to the number of active-duty Army recruits in fiscal year 2007.

The graph below shows the representation of active-duty Army recruits for 2007 compared to 2004, according to the median household income of their ZIP code.